HarperCollinsCanada Set to Publish Charmed e-Books

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HarperCollinsCanada Set to Publish e-Books Based On Hit TV Series

Ghost Whisperer and Charmed to release this spring and summer

TORONTO—HarperCollinsCanada announced today that the company will publish original content based on popular, long-running TV shows, starting with Ghost Whisperer and Charmed. Licensed by CBS Consumer Products, the content will be published initially as e-book novels, serials and collections, starting this spring, with the addition of printed books in the future. E-books will be made available world-wide.

"The reading experience gives these already hugely popular shows a completely new dimension," said Steve Osgoode, Vice President of Digital Product at HarperCollinsCanada. "Books are the perfect medium for these wonderful storylines to endure and flourish for years to come."

Content for all the properties will be developed by Toronto-based packager Joe Books, a company known for its expertise in television, movies, music, books and cross-platform media.

"We've crafted these stories to appeal to die-hard fans and newcomers alike," said Jody Colero, President at Joe Books. "It is exciting to see how they evolve and take on new possibilities. I'm really looking forward to seeing how fans react."

The first Charmed novel, The War on Witches, is written by Paul Ruditis, the author of numerous companion books and novels for TV shows like Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, The Walking Dead and The West Wing. He co-authored both of the official Charmed episode guides along with writing several earlier Charmed novels and the New York Times bestselling comic book series revealing the show's "unaired" ninth season. The War on Witches will be on sale May 26, and the first Ghost Whisperer novel will be on sale this summer.

www.harpercollins.ca/press-releases/16/harpercollinscanada-set-to-publish-e-books-based-on-hit-tv-series

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Description:
Having won the ultimate battle against the forces of darkness, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige—The Charmed Ones —are looking forward to a hard-earned, peaceful future. But when Phoebe’s former love, Cole, returns from the dead and the sisters are reunited with Prue, now imprisoned at the magical convergence between the realms, a dangerous new threat emerges. As seemingly normal mortals violently steal the magic of witches, The Charmed Ones must shield their kind while protecting themselves from a modern-day witch hunt.

Charmed: The War on Witches continues the story of the Halliwell witches, picking up where the hit television series, Charmed, left off. With only the Book of Shadows to guide them, the Halliwell sisters are the fulfillment of their ancestor Melinda Warren’s prophecy that three sisters descending from her line would become the most powerful witches of all time. As The Charmed Ones, the sisters use the Power of Three to protect the innocent and banish evil from the Earthly realm.

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BY PAUL RUDITIS???

Maybe this is why he's no longer editing the comics...

I CAN'T WAIT!!!

Although I must admit - it sounds an awful lot like a novelization of the comics....and I could be hoping for a continuation from where Season 9 ended - an ALTERNATE Season 10...

Pat Shand, the writer of S10 (Paul has been editing them, although he recently quit, probably to work on these books) seems to think it's pretty unlikely that the comics will get a S11, because the sales aren't great. With that in mind, if - a big 'if' I know- but if Charmed was to continue beyond season 10, novelisations might be the most likely format. And if Paul is writing them, then that suits me just fine, especially because I haven't been impressed with S10 the way I was *very* impressed with S9.

Here's a bit of a recent message from Pat responding to a fan asking about a season 11:

"The online fandom is vocal and active and that’s amazing. I love it. However, that doesn’t even close to translate to sales. It’s the sad truth of why some beloved shows get canceled. No matter how much we love them, the size of “we” might be shockingly smaller than we think.

Hence my extreme trepidation to voice anything but doubt at the idea of a Season Eleven.

The novels, though? No idea. That’s Paul’s courtyard. If they’re still going on after I’m done on S10, I bet Ruditis would pick up after the end. I don’t know if they’d do seasons there, technically, because I honestly don’t know anything about the novels except that Paul is swell, they’re gonna be good, we’ve spoken about the way the comics fit with the books, and that I can’t wait to read it."

LOL, sounds like Paul realized that the comics weren't going to succeed, so he's switched back to books where he does it so well.

It definitely sounds like he's going to stick with the same universe, which probably means S10 will still be...S10, darn it anyway!

The best part about books - they can be longer, more detailed, and he doesn't have to worry about the artists and all of the other things. We'll probably get the books about as often as we got the volumes.

And with e-books, you don't have to worry about paper and all of the other expenses, so you can have a smaller audience and still be successful.

Like others, I'd prefer a REAL book to e-book, but a choice between something written by Pat Shand and Paul Ruditis, there's no choice.

And the best part about e-books is that anyone in any place around the world can get them, unlike the comics or even real books.